# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/patrick-leigh-fermor
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:37:58.653Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/patrick-leigh-fermor"
name: "Patrick Leigh Fermor"
slug: "patrick-leigh-fermor"
description: "Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor was an English writer, scholar, soldier and polyglot. He played a prominent role in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War, and was widely seen as Britain's greatest living travel writer, on the basis of books such as A Time of Gifts (1977). A BBC journalist once termed him \"a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene\"."
tagline: "British author, scholar and soldier (1915–2011)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Patrick_Leigh_Fermor.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1915-02-11"
deathDate: "2011-06-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  historical:           20.748768
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump